Zero Copy

20/01/2025

This days marks the beginning of the first industry event of 2025 When East Meets West in beautiful Trieste, Italy! We are so excited to be a part of it.

Last year, alongside the talented director Sarunas Mikulskis and producer Ringailė Leščinskienė, embarked on an incredible journey to create our documentary film, "Hermann's Little Africa." It was at this very event that we won a co-production development prize at the Trieste Film Festival's forum East Meets West.

I truly believe this year will be even better! A heartfelt thank you to Lithuanian Film Centre for the development funding for our film and the opportunity to present it at festivals.
And of course, a special shout-out to Pastore - thank you for everything!

28/12/2024

🎉 Happy holidays to everyone!

We are thrilled to share that right after the premiere in New York, our documentary film "Life and Death of a Christmas Tree" has gained a new life. On December 27, we held a unique and heartfelt screening at the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, dedicated to the deaf and hard of hearing, their family members, friends, and anyone who wanted to join.

We are especially grateful to Christmas and Arnold Matulis, as miracles happen during this season! 🎄

The idea to show the film to the deaf community originated from director Arturas Jevdokimovas and producer Ringailė Leščinskienė when we wanted to invite Arnoldas Matulis and his family to a screening at the Baltijos banga Film Festival in Nida last summer. We realized we couldn’t do it since the film was tailored for the hearing world.

With the new idea, we reached out to the necessary individuals and institutions for film adaptation. Just a few months later, Arnoldas, along with Anželika Teresė —our universal bridge between the hearing and the deaf—and the team from vertimaigestais.lt, organized a sign language invitation to this unique Christmas film session. ✨

During the event and the discussion afterward, we had a wonderful interpreter, Arūnas Šaukeckas, who communicated better with his hands than we did with words—thank you so much for that! 🙏

We appreciate LGK (Lithuanian Sign Language) and the Lithuanian Sign Language Translation Center for promoting the event among the deaf and hard of hearing community.

And, of course, thanks to the event organizers—Government of the Republic of Lithuania, Žydrė Talačkaitė Lyčienė, Laura Jaruseviciute, and Marius Gurskas, who believed in and realized this idea.

As always, we are grateful for the funding, promotion, and distribution from the Lithuanian Film Centre and our partner LRT! 🎥

P.S. Thanks to everyone who shared photos from the event! 😍

16/12/2024

🇺🇸 New York never sleeps, and the run-up to Christmas is hectic. Many events, parties, and preparations for the festivities have made a challenging environment, but despite that, many people turned up at the cinema on the 13th of December.

💚 Thank you to all the spectators, artists, photographers, and composers who came to The Life and Death of a Christmas Tree premiere at the NY Baltic Film Festival in New York! 🗽

After the film, everyone had the opportunity to join a particularly interesting Q&A session with the director Arturas Jevdokimovas and the producer Ringailė Leščinskienė, moderated by the American writer and journalist Elissaveta Brandon 💬 Thank you, Elissaveta, for a very engaging session, great preparation and facts about the Christmas trees in the US! 🌲

🙏Special thanks goes to Grazina Michneviciute, Cultural Attaché of the Republic of Lithuania, for organizing the event.
Thanks to the Lithuanian Film Centre for distribution.

Film distribution partners:
Lietuvos Generalinis Konsulatas Niujorke/Consulate Gen. of Lithuania in NY
Lietuvos kultūros institutas / Lithuanian Culture Institute
Lithuanian Film Centre

13/12/2024

We would like to thank Lietuvos Kinematografininkų Sąjunga for the wonderful news that we have won the "LuKaS" Award! 💚

We are pleased about this award from the LuKaS and the fact that the film is available to EVERYONE - see it at Forum Cinemas throughout December ➡️ https://www.forumcinemas.lt/event/310576/kal%C4%97d%C5%B3_eglut%C4%97s_gyvenimas_ir_mirtis

On 12 December, the annual Lithuanian Cinematographers' Union awards were presented for the most significant works of the LCU members.

A special LuKaS diploma went to director Arturas Jevdokimovas for his film "The Life and Death of a Christmas Tree" 🌲 revealing ironic images of contemporary neo-colonialism and sensitive human stories.

The awards are sponsored by Audiovizualinių kūrinių autorių teisių asociacija AVAKA.
The partner of the Award is Lietuvos teatro, muzikos ir kino muziejus.
The Lithuanian Union of Cinematographers is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture (Lietuvos kultūros taryba).

11/12/2024

“Life and Death of a Christmas Tree” is heading across the Atlantic! 🇺🇸 New York film premiere will happen at NY Baltic Film Festival this Friday, December 13.

❗️FREE Entrance❗️

Each viewer of the premiere will have a free tree seedling planted in their name. Thanks to our friends NGO Myliu Mišką

When: December 13, Friday, 7 PM
Where: ASF + Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York

Reserve your seat https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/life-and-death-of-a-christmas-tree/

The premiere will be followed by a Q&A session with the film's director Arturas Jevdokimovas and producer Ringailė Leščinskienė. The discussion will be moderated by journalist Elissaveta Brandon.

Film is partially financed by: Lietuvos kultūros institutas / Lithuanian Culture Institute, Lietuvos Generalinis Konsulatas Niujorke/Consulate Gen. of Lithuania in NY, Lithuanian Film Centre.

07/12/2024

After a long creative process and a journey through European film festivals, Arturas Jevdokimovas and Ringailė Leščinskienė’s observational documentary “Life and Death of a Christmas Tree” has finally hit Lithuanian cinemas. 🎬🎄

We had a pre-premiere on 4 December, which went wonderfully. After the premiere, the audience had a chance to chat with the filmmakers over a glass of wine, and one of the audience members won a prize from the sponsors - a Christmas tree that will delight the winner this Christmas!

Thanks all the sponsors for making it happen 🙏🏻

15/11/2024

Film director Arturas Jevdokimovas and producer Ringailė Leščinskienė as members of the Institute of Documentary Film's (IDF) delegation will present "The Life and Death of a Christmas Tree" and other projects at the International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) Docs for Sale program "East Silver collection". 🇳🇱

🎬 The filmmakers are attending the festival starting from 🗓️November 15 to 21 and will be happy to meet and talk with anyone interested.

About IDF: https://dokweb.net/about-us/about-us .
International industry events by IDF: https://dokweb.net/activities

Režisierius Arturas Jevdokimovas ir prodiuserė Ringailė Leščinskienė kaip Institute of Documentary Film (IDF) delegacijos nariai pristatys filmą “Kalėdų eglutės gyvenimas ir mirtis” ir kitus projektus Tarptautinio Amsterdamo kino festivalio (IDFA) Docs for Sale programoje “East Silver collection” 🇳🇱

Filmo kūrėjai festivalyje dalyvauja nuo lapkričio 15 iki 21 dienos ir mielai susitiks ir pabendraus su visais norinčiais. 🎬

Apie IDF: https://dokweb.net/about-us/about-us .
IDF organizuojami tarptautiniai industrijos renginiai: https://dokweb.net/activities .

Filmo gamybą ir sklaidą iš dalies finansuoja Lietuvos kino centras.

EN ⬇️

Film director Arturas Jevdokimovas and producer Ringailė Leščinskienė as members of the Institute of Documentary Film's (IDF) delegation will present "The Life and Death of a Christmas Tree" and other projects at the International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) Docs for Sale program "East Silver collection". 🇳🇱

The filmmakers are attending the festival starting from November 15 to 21 and will be happy to meet and talk with anyone interested. 🎬

About IDF: https://dokweb.net/about-us/about-us .
International industry events by IDF: https://dokweb.net/activities

Film production and promotion is partially sponsored by Lithuanian Film Centre.

📷 Modestas Endriuška

02/11/2024

🎬 The German premiere of our documentary "The Life and Death of a Christmas Tree" 🇩🇪 will take place on 6 November at the 34th FilmFestival Cottbus! The film is nominated for the DIALOG Award for the promotion of intercultural understanding.

The film's director Arturas Jevdokimovas and producer Ringailė Leščinskienė will be present at the festival. The premiere will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers 💭
We will also have special guests – film characters Marianna (Denmark 🇩🇰) and Teona (Georgia 🇬🇪) will be present at the premiere and will tell us more about the life of fir trees 🌲

There will be two screenings of the film:
📍06.11.2024 | 15:00 | Glad-House (premiere)
📍10.11.2024 | 15:30 | Kammerbühne (second premiere screening)

Get your tickets ➡️ https://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/en/program-en/sections-en/movie/2566.html

We warmly invite everyone to come and are extremely grateful for your support 💜

🎬 Mūsų dokumentinio filmo “Kalėdų eglutės gyvenimas ir mirtis” premjera Vokietijoje 🇩🇪 įvyks lapkričio 6 dieną, 34-ajame FilmFestival Cottbus festivalyje! Filmas yra nominuotas “DIALOG Award” už tarpkultūrinio supratimo skatinimą.

Festivalyje dalyvaus filmo režisierius Arturas Jevdokimovas ir prodiusėre Ringailė Leščinskienė. Po filmo premjeros įvyks Q&A sesija su filmo kūrėjais 💭
Turėsime ir ypatingų svečių – premjeroje dalyvaus filmo veikėjos Marianna (Danija 🇩🇰) ir Teona (Sakartvelas 🇬🇪), kurios papasakos daugiau apie eglučių gyvenimo užkulisius 🌲

Įvyks du filmo seansai:
📍06.11.2024 | 15:00 | Glad-House (filmo premjera)
📍10.11.2024 | 15:30 | Kammerbühne (antras premjerinis seansas)

Bilietai ➡️ https://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/en/program-en/sections-en/movie/2566.html

Labai kviečiame atvykti visus norinčius ir esame be galo dėkingi už jūsų palaikymą 💜

Filmo gamybą ir sklaidą iš dalies finansuoja Lietuvos kino centras.

EN

🎬 The German premiere of our documentary "The Life and Death of a Christmas Tree" 🇩🇪 will take place on 6 November at the 34th FilmFestival Cottbus! The film is nominated for the DIALOG Award for the promotion of intercultural understanding.
The film's director Arturas Jevdokimovas and producer Ringailė Leščinskienė will be present at the festival. The premiere will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers 💭

We will also have special guests – film characters Marianna (Denmark 🇩🇰) and Teona (Georgia 🇬🇪) will be present at the premiere and will tell us more about the life of fir trees 🌲

There will be two screenings of the film:
📍06.11.2024 | 15:00 | Glad-House (premiere)
📍10.11.2024 | 15:30 | Kammerbühne (second premiere screening)

Get your tickets ➡️ https://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/.../movie/2566.html
We warmly invite everyone to come and are extremely grateful for your support 💜

Film production and promotion is partially sponsored by Lithuanian Film Centre.

28/09/2024

All the previous film premieres have been fantastic, but the upcoming one holds a special place in our hearts ❤️

🇬🇪 Let's meet at the Life and Death of a Christmas Tree Georgian premiere on Monday, 30 September at 4 PM, at the Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (CAVEA GRAND MALL Cinema - 29 Sherif Khimshiashvili Street).

Meet film director Arturas Jevdokimovas, film producer Ringailė Leščinskienė, and our film characters from Georgia, Racha region. 🌲

Get your tickets here ➡️ https://bit.ly/biaffbiletebi

🎬Film production and promotion are sponsored by the Lithuanian Film Centre

27/09/2024

📣 We are pleased to announce that producer Ringailė Leščinskienė, co-founder of Zero Copy, has received invitations to join the jury of two Georgian film festivals!

🎬 Our producer will first go to Tbilisi, Georgia, for the Art&Travel International Film Festival. Join us on September 28 and 29 at Amirani Cinema Grand Hall to celebrate movies, art, and travel—entry is free.
Additional details regarding the event ➡️ https://arttravelfilmfest.com/

🎬 Later on, she will be a member of the jury at the BIAFF International Short Films Competition, participating in the Batumi International Art-House Film Festival shortly after, on September 30.
Do not hesitate to come watch some films and say hello 👋🏻 – get your tickets https://bit.ly/biaffbiletebi.
More information about the festival ➡️ http://biaff.org/

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📣 Džiaugiamės galėdami pranešti, kad prodiuserė Ringailė Leščinskienė, viena iš Zero Copy įkūrėjų, sulaukė kvietimo prisijungti prie dviejų Gruzijos kino festivalių žiuri!

🎬 Pirmiausia mūsų prodiuserė vyks į Tbilisį (Gruzija), į tarptautinį kino festivalį Art&Travel International Film Festival. Susitikime rugsėjo 28 ir 29 d. „Amirani Cinema“ didžiojoje salėje ir pasidžiaukime kino, meno ir kelionių sinergijos vaisiais - įėjimas nemokamas.

Daugiau informacijos apie renginį ➡️ https://arttravelfilmfest.com/

🎬 Vėliau, rugsėjo 30 d., ji dalyvaus Batumi International Art-House Film Festival ir bus BIAFF tarptautinio trumpametražių filmų konkurso žiuri narė.
Nedvejodami ateikite pažiūrėti filmų ir pasisveikinti 👋🏻 Bilietus įsigyti galite https://bit.ly/biaffbiletebi

Daugiau informacijos apie festivalį ➡️ http://biaff.org/

16/09/2024

🏆 We are excited to announce that “A Poem for Little People” won the Audience Grand Prize of Ukrainian edition at the ОКО - International Ethnographic Film Festival! 👁️

“A Poem for Little People” was an opening film at the 5th Edition of ОКО - International Ethnographic Film Festival at Bolhrad (Ukraine).

💜 Winning the audience award and being an opening film is a great credit to the film and an honor for the whole team – film director Ivan Sautkin, producer Elena Saulich from Babylon'13, producer Ringailė Leščinskienė and co-producer Arturas Jevdokimovas from Zero Copy. �

🎬 After over 6 months of premiers at different film festivals, the time has come, when our films don’t go to the festivals solo – now they come together. Our film “ and Death of a Christmas Tree” 🌲 had its’ Ukrainian premiere on September 14 at the OKO festival.

It is a great feeling to have two Zero Copy films in the international film festival programme and be able to present them to broader audiences.

📷 © Yuliana Lytvynenko Yuliana Lytvynenko Photo

📍 The Lithuanian Film Centre and the European Solidarity Fund for Ukrainian Films sponsored film production.

20/08/2024

Let's meet in Nida, Lithuania, at the International Film Festival Baltijos banga on August 24th 🌊

A free special screening of our movie Life and Death of a Christmas Tree awaits at 7 PM. After the screening, there will be a Q&A session with director Arturas Jevdokimovas and producer Ringailė Leščinskienė.

See you there!

📍Participation in the festival is sponsored by Lithuanian Film Centre Lietuvos kino centras.

Dalyvausime rugpjūčio 23-27 dienomis Nidoje vyksiančiame Tarptautiniame kino festivalyje Baltijos banga 🌊 Rugpjūčio 24 dieną bus surengtas specialus dokumentinio filmo „Kalėdų eglutės gyvenimas ir mirtis“ seansas.

❗️📣Seansas yra nemokamas ir ateiti gali kiekvienas, tad labai kviečiame visus esančius Nidoje ar netoli jos apsilankyti kino festivalyje ir iš arčiau pažinti lietuvišką kiną. Po seanso vyks klausimų ir atsakymų sesija, kur apie filmą daugiau papasakos ir į klausimus atsakys režisierius Arturas Jevdokimovas ir prodiuserė Ringailė Leščinskienė.

„Baltijos banga“ festivalyje vyks daug nemokamų kino seansų, tad tai puiki proga pamatyti apdovanojimus pelniusius, geriausius lietuviškus filmus 🇱🇹🎬

📍Festivalį organizuoja: Lietuvos kinematografininkų sąjunga, Nidos kultūros ir turizmo informacijos centras „Agila“
Festivalį finansuoja: Lietuvos kino centras, Neringos savivaldybė, Audiovizualinių kūrinių autorių asociacija AVAKA.
📍Filmo gamybą rėmė Lietuvos kino centras, West Danish Film Fund, Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija LRT, Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
Filmo pristatymą ir autorių dalyvavimą festivaliuose remia Lietuvos kino centras.

19/08/2024

🎬Thank you to the SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL and CineLink Industry Days for such a warm welcome and pleasant atmosphere. Ukrainian 🇺🇦 and Lithuanian 🇱🇹 delegation behind the film “The Running Land” – director Olena Siyatovska, producer Viktor Shevchenko and co-producer Ringailė Leščinskienė were glad to present this work in production and meet potential co-producers and partners.

We are happy that our production process is going according to the plan and hopefully, soon we will be able to announce the date for the premiere. 🔜

Additionally, we congratulate the “Work in progress” competition winners – the Lithuanian film “Baltic UXO” directed by Agne Dovydenaite and Alexander Belinski and produced by Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė. We wish you great success with your film and its’ premiere soon! 🤩

📍The Lithuanian Film Centre sponsored the film presentation and the authors' festival participation.

16/08/2024

🎬Let’s meet at CineLink Industry Days at the 30th edition of the SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL on August 17-22! 🇧🇦

🔗CineLink Industry Days at the festival are starting tomorrow 🔜 We are presenting our documentary in production “The Running Land” – a film directed by Olena Siyatovska СУК \ CUC , produced by Viktor Shevchenko and co-produced by Ringailė Leščinskienė Zero Copy.

Meet us at CineLink ➡️ https://www.cinelinkindustrydays.com/2024-docu-talents-from-the-east/the-running-land

Participation in the festival is sponsored by Lithuanian Film Centre Lietuvos kino centras 🎬

19/07/2024

🎬 On July 17th the documentary film project "The Running Land", directed by Olena Siyatovska, produced by Viktor Shevchenko, Valeria Sochyvets (СУК \ CUC) and Ringailė Leščinskienė (Zero Copy), was presented at the 15th Odesa International Film Festival at the "Work in Progress" section of the industry program.

The film tells three stories of Ukrainian teenagers who, faced with the horrors of war, find a way to replace their lost childhood through an illusory refuge in art.

03/07/2024

🎞️Sharing moments from yesterday’s German Premiere at Filmfest München.

It was a great experience for all team of “A Poem for Little People”– especially director Ivan Sautkin, and producer Ringailė Leščinskienė – to be a part of such a big film festival and have a nice Q&A session with the audience.

🎬Our film was chosen for The Audience Award in the film section “International Independents” and is waiting for audience votes here ➡️ https://intindies.votemo.eu/40197

“A Poem for Little People” is also part of the Special Program of the festival – “Focus on Ukraine” – the recognition of films made to highlight the importance of the Ukrainian war 🇺🇦

More about the special programs films here: https://www.filmfest-muenchen.de/en/program/films/?q=&datum=&zeit=&ort=&reihe=1739&s=date

Thank you for coming and see you soon at the upcoming film festivals! 🔜